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Given his title, it is perhaps no surprise that Mills takes as his epigraph Voltaire's remark that ‘If God did not exist, it would be necessary for us to invent Him’, and says that his book is about ‘the spiritual question for people who are in search of meaning and greater transcendence when they cannot believe in traditional religious principles and theological presuppositions’ (p. 2). In his opening section entitled ‘Proslogion’, after the eleventh century work by Anselm which put forward an ontological argument for the existence of God, Mills begins developing his own argument that God can only exist as an idea. Describing himself as a humanist who is in search of ‘spirituality without God’ (p. 5), he acknowledges the recent rise of writing supporting atheism, but claims a more tolerant and respectful attitude towards believers, and argues that questions about the existence of God should not be confused with questions about religion, while also expressing his interest in the psychology of belief and the different motivations that may support belief in God. While Ana-Maria Rizzuto wrote of the ‘God image’ and the ‘God representation’ (Rizzuto, 1979), Mills often writes of the ‘God posit’, a term which to my ear aims to bring the idea of God very much down to earth. Mills presents Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God as follows: ‘God is the greatest of all possible things we can conceive … and since actuality is greater than just an object of thought or understanding … God must exist in reality’ (p. 15). He argues against this, quite reasonably in my view, saying that the fact that something may be an object of thought cannot of itself guarantee that that ‘something’ exists. He then goes on to present a set of axioms, in the form of numbered sequences of propositions, under the heading of ‘God as Thought Experiment’ (p. 32), which consider the definition of God, the existence of God and the non-existence of God, and concludes that ‘God cannot exi